Friday, April 13, 2007

Poetry Friday

I found out about PPL's Poetry Podcast at Library Garden. The Garden post goes into details about the origin of the blog and techie stuff. One of these days I will start podcasting, I promise.

Posts at the Poetry Podcast contain photos, podcasts, and poems.

I've fallen into a bad habit; looking for out of copyright poems so I don't have to worry about "is it legal" and so I can post the whole poem. Thanks to PPL for posting current poets, and showing that poetry isn't dead. I usually don't think about my posts until Friday; but I'm going to make the effort to contact a current poet for permission to post his/her whole poem.

I saw a blogger who did this (post with permission) within the past few months and cannot find the blog; whoever did this, congrats to you. Basically, the blogger wanted to use the poem so emailed the poet and got permission. So easy; so obvious; so something I didn't think of until I saw someone else do it. Edited to add: The brilliant blogger was Lisa at Passionately Curious; thanks to Chicken Spaghetti for the reminder.

Links: will be added later today

Liz in Ink has two poems by kids; not only that, they are kids she knows! Her kids. That's one way to get around copyright. (And the final line of the second poem cracks me up. I can just hear the surprise.)

25 comments:

Thanks for the "link love" Liz! This project has been so richly rewarding in many ways and every single poet was beyond thrilled to be included. The tech part was so much easier than I could have imagined -- but I really could not have pulled this off without Evan. Hope to see you at NJLA! Janie

Also, I really liked your post -- I'm even worse than you... I worry so much about the copyright issues that I usually only post part of the poem even when it's far too old to matter. Today I posted the whole thing though. I figure pre-Confucian Chinese poetry is fair game.

About the permissions thing -- I posted a sestina by Jason Schneiderman about Buffy the Vampire Slayer a few months back, and emailed him for permission, which he granted. I haven't done it again since, and stick with either out-of-copyright material, snippets or a single poem from a review of an entire collection -- all of my stuff stays within the fair use exceptions, if copyrighted material gets in there.

I'm in for today's roundup with The Oven Bird by Robert Frost (poem and analysis). Here's the link to my main blog: http://kellyrfineman.livejournal.com/194495.htmland here's the link to the Blogger dupe: http://kellyrfineman.blogspot.com/2007/04/oven-bird-poetry-friday-post-for.html

I have a brief post on how my "Jabberwocky" Literary Salon went (http://medinger.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/jabberwocky-part-2/) and you can see a couple kids' drawings and one parody as well as hear our choral reading (all of this very, very informal, mind you --- no practicing) at http://blogs.dalton.org/Edinger/?p=210

Ugh, I missed Poetry Friday again! I'm still working my way through a poem a day (catching up when I miss a day, or two, due to insomnia). Visit me at Kiddie Lit, http://www.myreadingproject.blogspot.com

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